An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
It’s all about speed — about catching and fixing vulnerabilities and malicious exploits before they can cause damage.
Socket has developed a faster way to identify vulnerabilities and risks in source code and open source libraries, including imported packages.
Socket proactively scans open source repositories to detect vulnerabilities and malicious code, and does not depend on whether vulnerabilities are listed in the National Vulnerability Database. This helps them more quickly identify new risks and vulnerabilities.
Socket also integrates with GitHub pull requests, allowing developers to detect and remediate code vulnerabilities when making a change.
The scope of an organization’s scanning is set by linking to the organization’s source code management system repository or repositories.
Socket consolidates its findings into a centralized and prioritized list of security alerts for an organization to review and remediate.
Socket also provides a browser plug-in to identify vulnerabilities and risks in open source code when a developer is evaluating whether to use an open source project in an application.
Socket’s proactive scanning and analysis identifies emerging supply chain attacks, malicious dependencies, typosquats, and low-quality packages, and flags high value alerts.
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